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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Walking Girl" data-source="post: 2108560" data-attributes="member: 510059">I generally eat around 200g carbs per day, but in a review of MyFitnessPal looks like it’s been around 170ish lately with more fat instead.  I track because it’s what keeps me honest about how mich I eat, but I honestly don’t count carbs - I just avoid certain foods (any highly processed food of any type, all breads, pasta, rice, and white potatoes mainly)Anyway, yes, I lost 92 lbs, but about 40 of that was before diagnosis.  No doubt somewhat fueled by my high BGs in retrospect, but I was trying to lose weight so I didn’t notice.  I got the bad news in late November, 2017.  My weight has been stable since May, 2018.Good luck figuring out the connection if there is one.  One weird piece of info for you, I never saw high fasting numbers.  Mine dropped like stone immediately.  My first week with a meter, on 500mg Metformin, and cutting the carbs way down, I was in the 110-115 range, 100-110 in week 2, and under 100 ever since...not typical, as I’m sure you know.</blockquote>

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